Destroying the birds must not be permitted. This is not something that should be dismissed as lightening striking a flock of birds. Lightening didn't kill tens of thousands of fish a 125 miles away.

What experiments with bio-engineered methane gas is being carried out in Arkansas? See the following:

December 2010 16:31A University of Arkansas researcher is part of a team which has created the first methane-producing microorganism which can metabolize complex carbon structures, which could lead to microbial recycling of waste products and their transformation into natural gas. Dr. Daniel J. Lessner, associate professor of biological sciences, worked with a team at Penn State on the research.

Lessner and his colleagues worked with methanogens, methane-producing anaerobic microorganisms from the domain archaea that are thought to date back further in time than any other life form..........